Ronald Kiandee

Yang Berhormat Datuk Seri Dr. Ronald Kiandee SMW PGDK MP
Ronald Kiandee in the Polish Senate (2013)
Minister of Agriculture and Food Industries
In office 30 August 2021 – 24 November 2022
Monarch	Abdullah
Prime Minister	Ismail Sabri Yaakob
Deputy	Ahmad Hamzah Nik Muhammad Zawawi Salleh
Preceded by	Himself
Succeeded by	Mohamad Sabu (Minister of Agriculture and Food Security)
Constituency	Beluran
In office 10 March 2020 – 16 August 2021
Monarch	Abdullah
Prime Minister	Muhyiddin Yassin
Deputy	Ahmad Hamzah Che Abdullah Mat Nawi
Preceded by	Salahuddin Ayub as Minister of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry
Succeeded by	Himself
Constituency	Beluran
Deputy Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat
In office 28 April 2008 – 10 May 2018 Serving with Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar (2008–2013) Ismail Mohamed Said (2013–2018)
Monarchs	Mizan Zainal Abidin Abdul Halim Muhammad V
Prime Minister	Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Najib Razak
Speaker	Pandikar Amin Mulia
Preceded by	Yusof Yacob
Succeeded by	Mohd Rashid Hasnon
Constituency	Beluran
Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee
In office 7 August 2018 – 11 April 2019
Nominated by	Mahathir Mohamad
Appointed by	Mohamad Ariff Md Yusof
Deputy	Wong Kah Woh
Preceded by	Hasan Arifin
Succeeded by	Noraini Ahmad
Constituency	Beluran
Vice-President of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 23 August 2020 Serving with Radzi Jidin & Mohd Rafiq Naizamohideen (2020–2022)
President	Muhyiddin Yassin
2nd State Chairman of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party of Sabah
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 December 2022
President	Muhyiddin Yassin
Deputy	Aksyah Nasrah
Preceded by	Hajiji Noor
Member of the Malaysian Parliament for Beluran
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 November 1999
Preceded by	Asmat Nungka (BN–UMNO)
Majority	1,276 (1999) Walkover (2004) 4,352 (2008) 9,988 (2013) 7,115 (2018) 1,594 (2022)
Faction represented in Dewan Rakyat
1999–2018	Barisan Nasional
2018–2019	Independent
2019–2020	Pakatan Harapan
2020	Malaysian United Indigenous Party
2020–	Perikatan Nasional
Personal details
Born	Ronald Kiandee (1961-01-10) 10 January 1961 (age 63) Beluran, Sandakan, Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah, Malaysia)
Citizenship	Malaysian
Political party	United Malays National Organisation of Sabah (Sabah UMNO) (–2018) Malaysian United Indigenous Party of Sabah (Sabah BERSATU) (since 2019)
Other political affiliations	Barisan Nasional (BN) (–2018) Pakatan Harapan (PH) (2019–2020) Perikatan Nasional (PN) (since 2020)
Alma mater	Universiti Putra Malaysia (BSc) Universiti Tun Abdul Razak (MBA) Universiti Sains Malaysia (PhD)
Occupation	Politician

Ronald Kiandee (born 10 January 1961) is a Malaysian politician. A member of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU) and its Vice President since August 2020 and 2nd State Chairman of Sabah since December 2022, he has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Beluran since November 1999. He served as Minister of Agriculture and Food Industries in the Perikatan Nasional (PN) administration under former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin from March 2020 to the collapse of the PN administration in August 2021. He was reappointed to the same post for a second term in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob from August 2021 until the dissolution of the BN government in November 2022, when BN lost its reelection campaign in the 2022 general election. Prior to serving in the Cabinet, Kiandee was the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in the Pakatan Harapan (PH) administration from 2018 to 2019 and Deputy Speaker of the Dewan Rakyat in the BN administration from 2008 to 2018.^[1] He is presently the sole MP of the Malaysian United Indigenous Party of Sabah (Sabah BERSATU) and one of the only two Christian MPs of PN alongside Ali Biju.